Welcome to our fifth wrap-up of 2019. These will be posted on or around the first day of every month. It will be an easy reference for all of the reviews, guest posts, and articles done on the site, as well as shouting out sites that any of the Coolthulhu Crew have done guest posts/reviews on. If there is any news, it will be listed as well.
Note: * beside a title means it was an audiobook.
Horror Book Reviews:
- A Plague of Pages – John F. Leonard (Olly)
- Blood Drops: A Collection of Horror Stories – WB Welch (Nico)
- Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones – Micah Dean Hicks (Lilyn)
- Call Drops – John F. Leonard (Olly)
- Carnivorous Lunar Activities – Max Booth III (Tracy)
- Devil’s Hill: An Anthology – E. Reyes (V Castro)
- Dust Devils – Jonathan Janz (Tracy)
- Five Midnights – Anna Dávila Cardinal (Sian)
- Forgotten Girl, The – Rio Youers (Olly)
- In the Shadow of Spindrift House – Mira Grant (Lilyn)
- Inside the Asylum – Mary SanGiovanni (Lilyn)
- Ladies of Gothic Horror – ed. Mitzi Szereto (Gracie)
- Mansion, The – Ezekiel Boone (Olly)
- Mosquito Man – Jeremy Bates (Tracy)
- Mr Blue Sky – John Darke (Nico)
- Open Evening – Lee Hall (Michael M)
- Paramourn: Unfortunate Romances – John Edward Lawson (V Castro)
- Rites of Extinction – Matt Serafini (Tracy)
- Scenes from the Carnival Lounge – Michael J. Picco (Gracie)
- Screechers – Christina J. Bergling & Kevin Kennedy (Tracy)
- Slimer* – Harry Adam Knight (Lilyn) – Sci-Fi/Horror
- Stoker’s Wilde – Steven Hopstaken & Melissa Prusi
- Thief of Always, The – Clive Barker (Sian)
- Three Days in Ashford – Ty Tracey (Lilyn) – Sci-Fi/Horror
Horror DNFs:
- Dead School – Laura Gia West
- In the Days of Dread – Anton Marks
- Rabid Heart – Jeremy Wagner
- The Nightmare’s Truth by Luke Dalton
- The Hollow Places – Dean Clayton Edwards
Science Fiction Book Reviews:
- Big Egg – Raffael Coronelli (Sian)
- Emily Eternal – M.G. Wheaton (Sam)
- Outland* – Dennis E. Taylor (Lilyn)
- Nothing Within, The – Andy Giesler (Michael M)
- Passengers, The – John Mars (Michael M)
- Recursion – Blake Crouch (Lilyn)
- Tangle’s Game – Stewart Hotson (Olly)
- Vessel – Lisa A. Nichols (Lilyn)
- Wild Sun – Ehsan & Shakil Ahmad (Olly)
Kids Sci-Fi Book Reviews
- Falcon’s Feather, The – Trudi Trueit (Lilyn)
- IGIST – L.S. Larson (Book& App) (Lilyn)
- Miley McMeteor and the Lost Dog on Mars – Blake Weirs (Olly)
- Runaway Robot – Frank Cottrell-Boyce (Olly)
Kids Fantasy Book Reviews
- Ollie Oxley and the Ghost: The Search for the Lost Gold – Lisa Schmid (Lilyn)
Science Fiction DNFs:
Urban Fantasy Reviews:
- Almost Surely – Gavin Jefferson (Gracie)
Graphic Novel Reviews:
- Fissure – Tim Daniels, Patrice Delpeche (Lilyn)
- Shock Value Giallo – Mark Adams, Matt Warner (Olly)
Graphic Novel DNFs:
Horror Movie Reviews:
- Dabbe: The Possession (V Castro)
- Girl with All the Gifts, The (Sammy)
- Open House, The (Gemma)
- Pet Graveyard (Nico)
- Under the Shadow (V Castro)
Horror Movie DNFs:
Science Fiction Movie Reviews:
- Iron Sky (J.B. Rockwell – Bad Movie Mayhem)
- Wandering Earth, The (V Castro)
Science Fiction Movie DNFs:
Articles/Specials:
- A Gateway to Pulp – Sunburst – Phyllis Gotleib (Mike J)
- Avengers: Endgame: The Official Movie Special (Olly)
- Dusty Reels of Terror – The Catman of Paris (1946) (Mike J)
- Carry On Screaming – The Cats – Nick Sharman (Olly)
- Carry on Screaming – The Rage – Jack Ramsey (Olly)
- This is Not A Review of Hell’s Shadow by Dean Klein (Sian, Lilyn)
Interviews:
- Luciana Faulhaber – Don’t Look (V Castro)
Guest Posts:
- Inspection – Josh Malerman (review by Rich Duncan from Inkheist)
Coolthulhu Crew Guest Posts:
- Feral – Movie review on Ginger Nuts of Horror (V. Castro)
- Migration, The – Helen Marshall – Book review on Inkheist (Tracy)
- Fast Readers, Large Wrap Up Posts, and the Skeptics – Article on JessicaMapReviews (Tracy)
News
Look what our Snark Mistress, J.B. Rockwell, did!
Mannison Press is thrilled to announce the next addition to our anthology “Little Girl Lost: Thirteen Tales of Youth Disrupted”:
— Mannison Press (@MannisonPress) May 29, 2019
J. B. Rockwell, with “The Child Thief”
Welcome aboard, @JB_Rockwell!#LGLBook #WritingCommunity #IndiePub #IndieAuthors @deidrejowen @ronlinson9 pic.twitter.com/oTBeTsu6GT
We learned an important lesson this month. That we never, ever want to have to publicly call an author to the spot for bad behavior ever again. So, please, authors, be nice. It’s not that hard. Lilyn doesn’t need another few-days-long panic attack when a post goes viral and gets over 100,000 hits over a few days. (We recognize that most of the reason it made the impression it did was because Klein was 9-pages-worth-of-extra but still.) Please and thank you.
Note: The inclusion of DNFs (Did-Not-Finish). As you have seen, we’ve decided to publicly list the books or movies that we were considering reviewing for the site, but ultimately did not. We are doing this in effort to give a fuller picture of what we read/watch for the site. We will not be listing reasons for DNFs, nor will we be attaching reviewer names to particular novels.
DNFs do not mean we will no longer give negative reviews. It simply means that there are some books or movies that we decided not to finish for any one of a myriad of reasons.
Lilyn G is the founder of Sci-Fi & Scary, and leader of the Coolthulhu Crew. She does book and film reviews for both genres the site focuses on. Her tastes run towards creature features, hard science fiction, and lots and lots of action. She also has a soft spot for middle-grade fiction that rears its head frequently.
Though no longer involved with Ladies of Horror Fiction due to other responsibilities and a too-full plate, she was one of the original 4 co-founders.
Feel free to chat her up on Twitter as long as you aren’t hitting her up to review your book.
